Blogs are funny things. At times, writing and documenting my life on this website has seemed really important. I wanted people to read it, to like it, to really want to see the next post – the next installment of my life. However, in looking back, most of what I’ve written has been really trivial, here are some examples:
Another great workout today. 6 miles on the treadmill – tempo run. 2 miles easy (9:23 pace), 3 miles short tempo (7:47 pace), and 1 mile easy (9:2 pace) for a total of 6 miles. (link) – September 28, 2007
Being that yesterday was a rest day, today kicked off the actual workouts for my triathlon aspirations. My first workout was a swim workout and, while I have been swimming on and off for a while, it was a challenging and satisfying workout. Here are the details… link – December 10, 2008
I’m using this post to simply test windows live writer and see if I like using this to write and publish my blog content. So far, this is a great little tool.
I’ll keep working with it to see if it is going to be worthwhile. link – August 22, 2007
And on and on it goes… Aaron worked out… Aaron ran… Aaron Swam… Not very enlightening. Not even a very honest or open look in to my life. With that, there are a few posts that are very meaningful to me and important to the story of my life, like this one:
…the doctors were ready to fill me in on what was wrong with me, why I was feeling so lousy and what we needed to do to make things better. What they found was not good. When the Surgeon did my Gallbladder surgery he must have accidentally nicked my Abdominal Aortic Artery, so for the last week I had been bleeding into my belly. They called my condition a “Psudeo-Anurism”, meaning I was bleeding into my belly, but it was in a confined area; this is what was keeping me from bleeding to death. They rushed me (by Ambulance, code 3) to St. Joe’s hospital in St. Paul and I was in surgery less than an hour later. link – March 8, 2006
This was an important time in my life and I am so glad that I have it documented here and I can look back to this point in my life as a reminder of where I have been, what I have gone through, and why it is so important that I keep moving forward in a positive way. Everything can be taken away. This is a lesson that took me a long time to learn, but one that I’ll never forget…
So, on to the new…
As I said, when I look at the posts I have made (almost 300 at this point!) I think they reflect one part of my life, but maybe not the part that should be reflected. While I guess it’s ok that this blog shows how far I’ve run (or haven’t run), or how many hours I’ve logged in the pool, or how much I weigh – I think I can do more. I mean really, no one cares about this crap and – most importantly – in 10 years I won’t care about it either. If I’m going to take the time to write, shouldn’t it be meaningful?
So, with that, I am making a commitment to improve the quality, depth, and content of my blog posts. I’m going to write about things that are important to me – not what I think might be important to others…
Aaron
